Utilities deploying precise timing in their networks have an additional choice in evaluating solutions based on whether or not the devices are IEEE certified for compliance to the appropriate IEEE 1588 Power Profile. To reach this point, years of effort from the IEEE, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) have come together to enable this option now going through pilot testing.
The distribution of precise...